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I want to access some configuration data stored in the property bag. I want to access this information from a elements.xml file. This elements.xml file contains a Ribbon with Tabs and Buttons. Is there a way to do this? Or a way to access a static public string from an elements.xml file?

The Ribbon and its child controls are all inside a element.

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Not in then xml, but when you create ribbon buttons you specify javascript to execute when clicked.

You then have two options:

  1. Use Client Object Model in this javascript to retrieve the property and do the navigation
  2. Navigate to a trampolin page which reads the property and redirects
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As far as I'm aware, there's no way to access the object model in that way from a static XML file. You'd need code to pull the property you're referring to.

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  • I can pull the property via code, and store it in a public string. Is there anyway to access that string from the xml file?
    – Meyer Denney
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:05
  • XML is markup... it can't pull dynamic values.
    – webdes03
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:23
  • What if it was a public static string that was setup on PreLoad or something like that? Before the control got rendered the string would already be populated with the correct property value.
    – Meyer Denney
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:26
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    There's no such thing as a variable or a placeholder for the XML. Short of having something else generate the entire elements.xml file, I don't believe what you're doing is possible. Even considering that the elements.xml file is a static file stored within the solution and 14 hive, I'm not sure how you'd accomplish this. What are you trying to do?
    – webdes03
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:28
  • I had part of a url stored in the property bag. I also have a ribbon with buttons. When a user clicks one of the buttons, it is supposed to go to a certain url stored in the property bag. I have the buttons declared through xml rather than code behind. I would like to set the buttons commanduihandler to the url stored in the property bag.
    – Meyer Denney
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:31

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